Torus Games

Nine familiar games introduce children ages 10 and up
to the mind-stretching possibility of a “multiconnected universe”.
Games include: tic-tac-toe, mazes, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles,
jigsaw puzzles, chess, pool, gomoku and apples.
While playing the games, kids develop an intuitive visual understanding
of a model universe that is finite yet has no boundary.
Players who master the games in 2D may enjoy the extra challenge
of solving 3D mazes and playing 3D tic-tac-toe in multiconnected 3D spaces.
Even though the games were designed with kids in mind,
adults interested in topology, geometry and cosmology
have also found them enjoyable and enlightening.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. 1503701. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
the views of the National Science Foundation.